Re: packaging thunderbird and firefox extensions as RPM in Fedora

[Dan Young <dyoung mesd k12 or us>]

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com> writes:
>
> > 3.0.  There's no maintainable way to make it work now without querying
> > RPM in %post and requiring triggers.
>
> Why is firefox packaged in such a broken way (versioned dirs under
> /usr/lib)? I do not see any sense for such a layout on an rpm managed
> system.
>
> Alternatively, why not create a
>
> | /usr/lib*/firefox-<version>/extensions -> /usr/lib*/firefox/extensions
>
> symlink and place extensions into the unversioned dir?

FWIW, strace says firefox does stat /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/ on startup.

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Dan Young <dyoung mesd k12 or us>
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> Enrico